Pre-orders headlines

Amazon has revealed how video game pre-order figures changed during the gamescom conference last week, revealing that Nintendo Wii U games rose the most, and while initially, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was nowhere to be seen, it’s come to light the game did better than initially reported.

The extra DLC options for Mass Effect 3 pre-orders continue today with the announcement of Dark Horse’s “Art of the Mass Effect Universe” book. If you pre-order the art collection through Barnes and Noble, you’ll receive download code for character boosters and a Collector Assault Rifle for multiplayer. Here’s the word on the rifle: “The […]

There have been a few stories that came out today about Street Fighter X Tekken, so we’re rolling them all into one. We’ve got collector’s edition details, preorder bonus details, and a huge number of new screens.

Pre-orders have gone live for Vita in Hong Kong, apparently creating a level of delirium intense enough “jam” online stores and “mob” retail outlets, according to a Joystiq-filtered Engadget China report.

NCsoft MMO Aion now has more than 300,000 activated pre-orders ahead of its western launch later this month, Euro MD Véronique Lallier told VG247 yesterday. “Aion’s starting to achieve nice numbers,” said the boss. “We are over 300,000 activated pre-orders in the West. “It’s looking healthy. It’s nice and healthy two weeks before the launch… […]

According to Inside-Games, Japanese Dragon Quest IX pre-orders have now exceeded 2 million units. The game goes on sale in Japan later this week, with all indications pointing to the Square Enix RPG becoming one of DS’s lifetime bestsellers. Via Andriasang and GoNintendo.

Gamestop boss Bob McKenzie has told VentureBeat that DSi pre-orders are significantly higher than they were for the first DS. “We’ve seen some pretty brisk pre-orders on DSi,” he said. “It’s probably double where we were on the original DS, as far as reservation activity, so we’re expecting some great things from that.” We’ve already […]

Just how many pre-orders has Killzone 2 received in North America? SCEA isn’t saying. When news of Euro Killzone 2 pre-orders surpassing 1.1 million reached us last Thursday, we were curious as to what the North America equivalent was. No dice, unfortunately. Sony told us earlier this afternoon that the company doesn’t “provide pre-sales numbers […]

Seems the previous report saying GT5 Prologue pre-orders had hit 1 million in Europe was a bit off. A SCEE rep just got back to us saying they’d “been checking this information internally and can confirm that we currently have orders for almost 1 million units of GT5 Prologue across SCEE territories.” That includes Australia […]

According to this, more than a million people have pre-ordered GT5 Prologue in Europe, making it the first PS3 game to achieve platinum title status before launch. We’re just after some clarification from Sony on this. GT5 Prologue releases in Europe on March 28.

Amazon has revealed how video game pre-order figures changed during the gamescom conference last week, revealing that Nintendo Wii U games rose the most, and while initially, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was nowhere to be seen, it’s come to light the game did better than initially reported.

The extra DLC options for Mass Effect 3 pre-orders continue today with the announcement of Dark Horse’s “Art of the Mass Effect Universe” book. If you pre-order the art collection through Barnes and Noble, you’ll receive download code for character boosters and a Collector Assault Rifle for multiplayer. Here’s the word on the rifle: “The […]

There have been a few stories that came out today about Street Fighter X Tekken, so we’re rolling them all into one. We’ve got collector’s edition details, preorder bonus details, and a huge number of new screens.

Pre-orders have gone live for Vita in Hong Kong, apparently creating a level of delirium intense enough “jam” online stores and “mob” retail outlets, according to a Joystiq-filtered Engadget China report.

NCsoft MMO Aion now has more than 300,000 activated pre-orders ahead of its western launch later this month, Euro MD Véronique Lallier told VG247 yesterday. “Aion’s starting to achieve nice numbers,” said the boss. “We are over 300,000 activated pre-orders in the West. “It’s looking healthy. It’s nice and healthy two weeks before the launch… […]

According to Inside-Games, Japanese Dragon Quest IX pre-orders have now exceeded 2 million units. The game goes on sale in Japan later this week, with all indications pointing to the Square Enix RPG becoming one of DS’s lifetime bestsellers. Via Andriasang and GoNintendo.

Gamestop boss Bob McKenzie has told VentureBeat that DSi pre-orders are significantly higher than they were for the first DS. “We’ve seen some pretty brisk pre-orders on DSi,” he said. “It’s probably double where we were on the original DS, as far as reservation activity, so we’re expecting some great things from that.” We’ve already […]

Just how many pre-orders has Killzone 2 received in North America? SCEA isn’t saying. When news of Euro Killzone 2 pre-orders surpassing 1.1 million reached us last Thursday, we were curious as to what the North America equivalent was. No dice, unfortunately. Sony told us earlier this afternoon that the company doesn’t “provide pre-sales numbers […]

Seems the previous report saying GT5 Prologue pre-orders had hit 1 million in Europe was a bit off. A SCEE rep just got back to us saying they’d “been checking this information internally and can confirm that we currently have orders for almost 1 million units of GT5 Prologue across SCEE territories.” That includes Australia […]

According to this, more than a million people have pre-ordered GT5 Prologue in Europe, making it the first PS3 game to achieve platinum title status before launch. We’re just after some clarification from Sony on this. GT5 Prologue releases in Europe on March 28.